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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALMONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1913.
Stopeka tate Journal
By FKAXK, P. MACLEKAAA.
rEntered July 1. 1875. as second-clas
matter at the postotlice at Topeka. K.aiu,
under the act of congress. -
VOLUME XXXV.
...NjxJS
Official state Paper.
Official Paper City of Topekaw .
TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION
Daily edition, delivered by carrier. M
csntc a week to any part of Topeka. or
suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan
sas town where the paper has a carrier
system.
By mall ave year ....f
By mall, sis months 1.89
Sy mail. 100 days, trial order !-"
TELEPHONES.
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en or department desired.
topeka State Journal buUdlnc. aad
tot Kansas avenue, corner EiehAh.
New York Oftlca: So Fifth anana
Paul Block, manager. '
Chicago Oftloe: Sterer bonding. Paal
Block, manager.
Boston Office: Tremont Bulldtac Paul
Block, manager. - '
"tlLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The State Journal la a member ef the
Associated Frees and receives the full day
telegraph report ef that great news er-
amntzation for the exclusive afteiaaasj
InibllcaHoB In Topeka.
The news Is received In The State Jeuc
Bal building over wires far this sola pa
Colonel Munsey, apparently. Is not
among the peacemakers that .are
blessed.
' It would be Just like Washington
to demand a census during inaugura
tion week.
In spite of a multitude of entreat
ies. President-elect Wilson still re
fuses to "play ball."
January weather records were
again broken in Kansas during the
month Just passed. But they were of
the heat variety.
A gold mine is a desirable posses
sion, to be sure. But a healthy oil
well undoubtedly has it outclassed
these days as a profit producer.
Speaker Brown's bill to "recall"
the Judiciary f-rom politics assuredly
Is In line with the right idea. One .of
the original mistakes in this country
"was to mix the Judiciary with politics.
i Maybe all Europe is so intensely In
terested in the Balkan situation , be
cause each of its component parts
wants a piece of the Turkish pie that
Is certain to be sliced sooner or later.
Classical educations are beginning
to be put to some practical use. A
number of Princeton students have
emulated the Greeks by opening a
shoe-shining parlor.
There will be a few
Rahs!" at the Wilson
"Rah, Rah,
Inauguration
even If there isn't going to be a ball,
Twenty -six carloads of Princeton stu
dents have planned to participate.
And the professional weather men
cenm tr. v.q tottinr w'aer n thev prow
older. Their current predictions that
. . .
Kansas Is to experience some winter ,
weather are no more than reasonable.
This is the winter season.
At any rate, Cip Castro is enjoying
an experience that comes to few per
sons. He is a man without a coun
try. However, it is not likely that
much satisfaction can come to a man
in euch a situation, even if it is dis
tinctive and unusual.
Notwithstanding the merits of the
case, the mere fact that the Kansas
senate saw fit to unseat a Socialist,
who had been given a certificate of
election to that body, . will provide
rich material for additional raging on !
the part of the Socialists of Kansas ;
and the nation.
, N"or Is it likely that West
would learn much to their
by a year's experience In
schools and army of Germany.
was a German military expert who
trained the Turkish army that has
made such a poor showing against
the Balkan allies - i
One of the professors at the state believe that the average American
agricultural college has evolved the working-man Is too Intelligent and too
brilliant idea that the farmer should ambitious to surrender the hope of re
play ball in order to eliminate the ward for the dubious benefit of be-
" even wmi-
out baseball training the farmer is at
least pretty speedy in making home
runs when the dinner signal sounds. ;
New York society women are tak-;
wig pledges never again to wear the
much prized plumage of either the
bird of paradise or the aigrette. This
ought to give these birds about all
the protection they need. Not so many
oiner women nave DanK rolls of suf-
ficient proportions to buy the real
, ... . , ..
real thing in these lines.
As far as the people of the Tnited
,;:" " " ,,.: I- . .
omi scuciaiiy are concernea lew or
tates generally are conci
them knew that Bishop . Carpenter,
one of the prominent churchmen of
England, was visiting in this country
until he saw fit to pass out an inter-
view to a Boston newspaper mi to
the effect that it Is perfectly proper
for women to smoke if they can get
any pleasure out of it. j
I
Presumably the hoboes who attend-I
ea the annual convention of their
Man ot Ccxr nrloQTia nf triA v.
retical variety. They passed resolu-
tions urging the government to bring
the Panama canal machinery to this
country and use it in the reclamation .
of lands. They argued that this would
provide employment for 30,000 ho-
boes. But the real hobo hates work
as much as he does soap. And, as a
matter of fact, when a knight of the
hobo. ' -
Linguists and translators have fin-
any come into their own. Under the'Here they can dance, visit with . I
will of an Englishman,-juBt deceased, another, listen to music, have the usual '
an estate of $5,000,000 is left to mis- summer drinks and Ices at cost all in
aionary societies for the express pur- a wholesome, uplifting, strengthening
pose of giving to every tribe of man- ! atmosphere.
kind that has them not, and which rpjjjg not what people call unsel
speaks a language distinct from all rish altrnism. AH these betterments
otners, accurate, copies or at least tne
gospels of St. John and St. Luke to-
k I- h 7. 1 k " " 7. , th Tr.?-
Kfther wIth the book, of the Acts of
the Apostles printed fn the language,
of that tribe.
IX1 It YEAR TERMS.
A half-loaf is better than none, of
course. But It falls far short of be
ing as satisfactory. And this is exact
ly the situation with respect to the I
proposed constitutional amendment
lengthening terms of office to four
years, as it has passed the senate. It
affects only state offices. That Is
most desirable, to be sure. The peo-
pie have asked for it. And they have
asked for something more. They want
the terms of county offices extended
in like fashion.
. This reform lias applied to- the
people most strongly because it pro -
vides the way for putting a stop to
the incessant political turmoil that has
prevailed in Kansas of late years, and
particularly sine the Inception of the!
primary. If it is applied merely to I
state offices the important end sought
can scarcely be attained. As a matter
of fact the boiling of the county po
litical pot is even more bothersome
than are the activities in state politics.
A set of county officers is hardly In
stalled before candidates for the same
offices begin to preen themselves for
the primaries of sixteen months or
so away. . Not only is their card-pass
ing and buttonholing a nuisance as: Tlmeg reports: while chopping wood
far as the general public is concerned. a.st Thursday, Willie Nets had a nar
But their activities also mean that ' row escape from a serious accident,
first-termers in office must devote con- When the a hit the chunk it r e
..... . . . . , 'bounded and turned over, ine Diaae
siderable of their energies to keeping gck Willie in the forehead, cutting
their political fences in repair. ' They ' a gash which required sewing to
must da this if thev would have a eether.
chance of gratifying their ambitions j This is the time of year, remarks
for a swond term This necessarily the Lebanon Times, when the fooi
ror a second term. inis necessarily Hnoomne around looking for
takes time and attention from their j
work, and their usefulness to the com
munity is thereby Just that much im
paired. Then, too, under a four year
term, with a ban placed on re-election ! bes of last night's fire is quite gen
without one Intervening term, no ! eral and is a pretty sure way to start
county officer would feel the necessity something.
of measuring any of his acts by politi
cal considerations.
Indeed, every argument that can be
advanced as to why this plan is a wise
on for state offices Is just as forceful
s. tn tt-i, it y, j
J " 15 . "
county offices. Under present condl-
tions, too, municipal elections follow
so closelv after countv and state elee-
so closely after county and state elec-
tions that local politics are continu-
ously on deck. And there will be lit-
tie relief from too much xinliH if
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county offices are not included In the .
constltuOonal amendment in question !
. , ..... .. ...
for submission to the people.
WHAT IS SOCIALISM?
In the ranks of industrialism the bat-
on of the field marshal is at the bot-
torn of every
recruit's knapsack, al-
i though not every one has the wit to
.. . ..
iina it, writes a. Maurice Low in the
Febn, r.rr,i,e, f tv.e iT-,v. . "
j .... w.v. .iwim aiuci-
lean" -Review R if i. i.... ,v.
. v..w. aim luai
ls the incentive to hard work, to decent
uving. io tne exercise or man's ren,
soning faculties. That is the reward to
, . . ., . .
which every apprentice may aspire; but
what would he hi tr ., ..-
t03k over all industry? Assuming an
absolutely honest civil servieo where
- -
o lo.unLioui, w umo imiuence
counts for naught and merit Is the sole ,
test an Ideal state of affairs not Im- 1
possible of realization, but practically
almost so the faithful,' ' diligent, and
intelligent government servant would
slowly gain his promotion and might
hope, after long years of service, to
reach the highest rung in the ladder
an agency or the management1 of an
Important bakery, let us say. But he
would always remain a hired man, a
servant of the state. Socialism would
mean implanting upon western civil-
(ization the debasing and furious ef- I
father, and there would be a caste of
y,Vo,a , .m, .,, .v, .
rf . . . ,
caf of ffal fetors In India. I take
1 phase of Socialism has not been
considered by the working-man, and I
- liib mate,
especially as the first and most
marked effect of Socialism would be
to increase the cost of all commodities
without conferring any corresponding
benefit.
INCREASING KFPICIEVCY.
A manufacturer ln New York has
just completed a twelve-story structure
that is as fireproof as modern science
oould m.-ke it writes Thomaa nreter- in
February Nautilus Not onlv is the
,rlmui"' .auuiu. ioj. only is tne
j material of which the building is made
of a non-burning nature, but the most
modern fire-escape and other nrotec-
tive devices have been installed. You
. . , - . . . .. -
can understand that this one better-
ment alone w,n draw thousands of
girls who remember what happened to
the workers who were caught In fire- ;
traps and burned to death. This manu-
facturer can have his choice of the
best workers because he offers them
the best kind of a workshop. j
Kot only is this building fireproof.
out food la served to all workers at
iot T'V vrv1 Uclf lo ?
sanitary kitchens in the building, and
is far superior than that served In the
public restaurants which workers are
forced to patronize. There are also
rest rooms, with reading matter free
shower baths, a hospital with trained
nurse and otner betterments of a
simllaV nature. This man goes still
farther. Not content with providing
ma neipero wnu ure uesi auring tneir
woriung day, ne nas opened a roof gar-
den which is free to them at night.
are nrnvMn1 heeaiise it i good busi-
" rov,ae lUSe " ;h tsome
ness to ProvHe them. With wholesome
foQ& pure air plenty cf sunlight, op-
' ' recreation, fair
1 . . . tv,-
wages, inenuiy ireauueui. uu
. . , -he workers
good things of this kind, the worKers
cannot fail to be contented, to rina
measure in their work and to do every-
thing in 'their power to prevent the loss
i of their jobs.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
u. n-lm enough to go it
,
s
A man's troubles are seiaom
than he makes them.
More people would be gamblers if
't lesg chance of losing.
4.
' There is usually a wide gulf between
; a man's salary and what he thinks
should be.
Mar,x, fnlte have what might well be
! caUed imaginative ears. They hear so
many things that are never said.
JAYIiAWKER JOTS
Mr. Ure of Dust Corner, Gove coun
ty, also is a strong competitor in the
Kansas short name contest.
And the conservative Blue Rapids
?JL wS ,h,Dine wood
the jenow w),o uses an overdose of
kerosene in getting a rousing lire
started on cold mornings, and it must
keen him nretty busy, because throw-
: l-nrni-ao nn tiie smouldering em-
There is a good deal or lying aDout
. i ..isnL-o tt1 itnr proriv
of the Lawrence Journal-World, and
he elucidates: From . Cottonwood
Falls comes
, ;
iuuioc - . v. :
.parcel post will only carry up to 11
pounds. Then from Horton comes
another story that a steel culvert came
by parcel post. This is another fool- :
jh "lie No culvert on earth could .
wejgn as little as 11 pounds. The !
parcel post is the greatest thing of the
ae and this lying about it will not ,
interfere with its popularity.
ln ere..w "n f "
,i"B Sf ul2?
... H L .il.l. . ' . w.w
Editor McElhinney in his Gove Coun-.
ty Advocate. The train was about a
Vi -l 1 f Vir.nr lnte nnrl there were at leant '
a dozen ladies in the waiting room j
vha tic r-oiitrrl haired individua.1 who 1
had evidently been raised in a fumi- '
gating plant dragged an old clay pipe i
gat of J''SSSS.S
ijl tobacco but which Thad m odor i
06 tuuai.T.u, uui. yii " u . j
more like a compost heap. Alter he
had used a match and turned on the
. . . . , , , .
draft, it was evident .that the waiting ,
r-rvrvrr. Turn a not a health resort Tor mi
crobes or ladies either. Although the
hints were plentiful that the ladies
.-i"'"-f v-
cess absolutely essential, the animal,
who should have had a row of hrlntles
,i, n .,., i
smosea on entirely oduvious to tne ;
torture he was handing out to re- :
spectaDie people, xt is sucn conauct ,
as mis tnat mane rerormers get up
and howl and tear their garments.
GLOBE SIGHTS
BT THTC ATCHISON OtOBB.
So much of the New Thought is new
foolishness.
No 8tory Is good enough for a busy man
to appreciate It.
What becomes of all the natents local
lnveniors la&e out :
t , i x n -
Teor.ie are r.t tr. r.t ,t
accept your judgment before It is given.
il.r.,. i,,T.T.T.T. j'
a brave man may" be"af raid of " a
ufed Yoking
used to being
to woman jurors; men are
convicted.
We are inclined to Question the veracl-
ty of the gent who accompanies every
statement with an affidavit.
While an auctioneer speaks rapidly
without saying much, you should remem
ber he gets paid for that line of talk.
We have also a slight curiosity to know
whether the Brazil nuts come from Brazil
or not, but the encyclopedia is In the next
room.
,rin t pintiMO . .
for the parlor to be sadly in need of dust- ;
ln every time tne feet nouseneeper . in
the neighborhood makes her calls.
occupying the place of ho?or on a"Voung
T,-1 - ,1. nln n-I.Ii.1. Ko twu...
man's dresser requires dusting by the
housekeeper It is a sign she has been
placed in the ranks of the has-beens.
POIXTE1I PARAGRAPHS.
I From the Chicago News.
He's a good man who sleeps all the
time" , . . - '
Th. hoot ran for k pntnmati rrtav he
an est cure.
Art may be long, but it's different with
artists. -
Th. iove of money is the easiest of all
roots to cultivate.
As a sUcker a porous plaster hasn't
anything on a bad habit.
When you have a lawsuit to lose you
c" ord to hire a cheap U.wj-er
thyou dlat know wts l" &
it is far better to make your mark tn
the world than it is to be an easy one.
An old bachelor gets a bad case of stage
that ho didn't marry the first woman he
iKono - hr Yin ma a in lrv with.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
f From the New York Press.
Ignorance puts up the hottest argument.
Girls don't need much of any teaching to
get a thorough education in men.
History is willing to be generous to a
cead man because it won't do him any
good.
A man can get a very big opinion of him -
self thinking what he's going to do if
he ever Kets started.
Whenever there's going to be a carl
party for charity the devil feels his work i
,? 25
could do it that be takes a day off.
- ---- " rpu: v icuvui ttuu wiutteuuess, can oe seen
alfalfa came oy parcel y!liR those men and women who sat upon
KAffSAS COMMENT
. JUSTIFIABLE LIFE-TAKING.
-A- young man was being slowly roast-
ed to death in the ruins of a building
in a Texas town the other day and he
begged that somebody would shoot him
and Dut him out nf his aennv. Pres.
" . . - , 7,.
enUv doctor stepped up. "Kill me!
eried tortured man. ..j
do yQu know.. Baid tne doctor,
and was goinfc to exnlain about the
ethics of his profession, and read a few j
sufferer uttered such a frenzied scream
of aneuish that tho wtr' nrnfe9.
j sionalism fell off like a garment, and
: he became a human being. Taking his
nypoaermic needle he administered
some done to thfi sufferer, and the lat-
ter fell back dead. Prohahlv the doc-
tor will be investieated or reprimanded
! r deprived of his diploma or some-
rning d ne should be given a gold
Ya aoctors should be author-
- j i an . . -
suffering unbearable tortures, and who
ss ur ueau.-jsmporia Gazette.
STICKING TO THE. G. O. P.
The press disoatche fm n .
the country during tho t t
. - . . -
YZY"iJJllOTm&ion.. wih will be of
m t to the Kull Moosers.
every state have come
pronouncea statements from leading
progressives who declare In emphatic
terms that they do not propose under
jLi Hii Hnin rrnm i en n m cr
any circumstances to leave the Repub-
lican mrtv ,, ,!
rorff?ta.Sr?i2 nf
tentious irreconcilabies have not avail-
ed to prevent Republicans organizing
and electing United States senators. In
' tne wepuDUcans have wrested a
senator from the Democrats, in Massa
chusetts the Bull Moosers failed in
their efforts to defeat Senator Weeks,
and a like fate seems to await them
in Wyoming, Rhode Island and New
Hampshire. Clay Center Republican.
I ROM OTHER PENS
WHEN KINGS WERE MADR.
They were strange days, as we read of
oii-inse aays, as we read of
them now. A new volume from the press
of Funk & Wagnalls company. New York.
as from a Twentieth Century searchlight,
i It is a Dew translation and nnnrlAnnHnn
ubo ts History of France, and many
"J? , JASfff SS" 5Lh"
oi wisaom ana wickedness, can b nepn
nr4n. a j , '
mrones ana Knelt Derore them! Louis
XIV, for instance, was himself a whole
panorama as one realizes who visits,
even now, the palace at Versailles.
Mazarin, who had seen his birth, and
who knew him to the core, said of him:
"He has in him the making of four kings
and one honest man." Fouquet, who feted
him so magnificently at Vaux, waa early
,n a'sgrace, ana when sent to prison for
life Fouquet's pious mother could say of
VSl.Ti:Jf.J!L.J
prayed for his salvation, and here is the
wa. i
What
lusty old fighter
Louis XIV came to be! "I loved war too
mur-h " Wfljs hla ' nntrietle rnnfMdlnn nn
his death-bed. But he made a gallant
figure, even late, in his long life, as one
IfWt
"-any personages described and pictured
i .v, ih.n aa m .dihi.
" , " A" I .. '
slated by. Gustaye Masson. The en-
i ire nisiory is uuuoraaiit;. waco ximes-
Br-lr,
MISDIRECTED BCONOMT.
To save money in the wrong
place is
not a new pracuce in congress, ana it is
no ta surprise that the house followed
s commmee on moian anaira in rej.ua.ng
.... t f ha fr..
terior regarding the appropriation for
hospital, sanitation, and medical work
among the red men. The appropriation
?n!0"?JhJ n-,et PEPKi1
iia uctu tm,, kui i,..u6... ".r.
vealed a much worse set of conditions
among the Indians than in the country as
dui toTulmonary tobeiwl
tration area of the United States, which
includes twenty-one states, ts 11, among .
T .,, !. i n-V, V, frnm 1
ma j-iiuiaiia it is i.
all causes among these peoples is over ;
30, or more than double that In the area
tne appropriation for
Seorotltwho.-pl-rtI-Ud
work amone: the Indians oe mcreaseu lu
1405.000. These figures, however, ingnten-
m, k,,.T s.h,o-
J 1 li-ir nomhare rT thP nnllSfl Clim-
ed the thrifty members of the house com-
cu uic mi n t.j ihCU.ui.iu ., ,
mittee on Indian aitairs ana w
to add a single can i o.... j
J?F4:SS
Gently those interested in such action
snould let thelr senators kno1ofw1hatDh
S11UU1U list, .'' ,j . . . -
think about the importance of its being
taken. new lore .evening
QCAKJil: Mi:DrTATlOXS.
From the Chicago News.
Anticipated pleasure seldom pans out
right.
Doctors disagree except as to the size
of the bill.
ln order to be a social favorite a man
-- -----
lty takes more than a soft answer to
turn away tne book agent
t-i i a Ka o-nlrlcn but silver will
. . v . . ,
?LSr Solv-
. ,7'" ln them and time Is
tnere le8S tlme ln taem na "me
If we were all as good as we aovije
others to be, heaven would be right here
on earth.
i r-inth inc.ket is warmer than a fur
lined coat, there being less temptation to
leave it open,
Anyway, the leap year girl who pro-
. aa merelv trvinB? to
mane a name for herself,
The poor man must go out and weather
the storm, but the ricn man car, y
home and storm at tne wwmer.
It Is said that men who never drink.
smoke nor stay out Jate at : night live to
a ripe old age. Perhaps that s tneir pun
lsh"t- . h, f t
thtrever morSl of he?
JSSlSr
? v tomosione io ner m
If a man is before a court on a
charge of stealing bedclothes would
a nt Ahar aavs- You can't keen
(As Oat Abar says, iou cant Keep
a squirrel on the ground.)
Is an honest policeman like a pic-
ture taken by a photographer because
he is a foe to graft?
Lie down Fldo! You're all wet)
Is there "any relief for a window
Hy'1 mav drive a horse to a soda
fountain TuTa 'ncH musT U Tied. V
ba!0 ' I
r VAFFYDILS I
BT TJ- leOALL.
THE ART OF DIKING.
Now when you dine with Mrs. B.,
Or when she asks vnn f tn t.
j Although your conversation's bright. '
nauemDer, you're a satellite.
And though you're full of quips and fun.
iou musTnot" overcloud thS smV
For he who lets his hostess shine
I asked another day to dine.
London Opinion.
1HE EVENIHG SJORY
rhh- ,, ? "eyO
noebe sat all day in summer and
sewed by the open window.
"What would I do without my view
irom tne wijwowT" she said to Mrs.
Rogers. Who sold in her E-ift Khnn all .
the products of Phoebe's skilled atitch. I
ery.
"You ought to get out more, Phoe-
raw Mrs. Rogers. "It's gay
said Mrs.
t . . . . -
'a summer, when all of the
Bit on the porch In the evening and
oanemg. or tneres tennis
watch the dancing, or there's tennis
and golf, everybody is welcome to tea
at the country club "
Oh hut T w,iiA. tw.i, , ,
.?h,xiiW0.d.n.,t.,mk,.0' BOlazL
...Vn wouldn't uuait of going!"
f.811. .fhoepe, shrinking. "I've Just
llVeO nere in th Villae-A MM T? rx tra-ra
aU mv life and 1m th)rt.fl t
teel as if I were intruding, a quiet
utUe thln ,ike ,
. . . " .
v.., jwu uuu i auuK unn v-uve.
said practical Mrs. Rogers as she laid
in piles the delicate aprons that Phoebe
! had embroidered. "If you'd put on one
of .those pretty dresses you're made to
.. 11 1 ,1 , ... . . .
tur4 " anierent crea-
MeT Phoebe started 1a surprise.
I don t see why you couldn't," said
Mrs. Rogers.
'It would be terribly extra vaarant "
said Phmiha "Tiin c tn nv,a
died. It's all I can do to nav the taxe
uicu, a can uo 10 pay tne taxes
on my little house. Mother had a pen- . mu8t be all wool and a yard wide, ai
slon and that helped." though her husband's salary was mostly
"You oughtn't to live alone," said ! cotton and much nearer eighteen Inches
Mrs, Rogers decidedly. i than a yard.
T haven't any one to live with." said Sue felt that sn would degrade herself
Phoebei bv admitting anything cheap into her
"Then get married." Mrs. Rogers's h iiuy, she would have raised her-
eyes sparkled merrily. . self Since sne would have been doing
Phoebe's little face grew scarlet. I what every Just and square man or wom-
"Oh, I couldn't." I an ought to do, making her tastes con-
Something in her voice made ZZtb.
Roers aslT softiv "Waa there ever
fnT pwS' ever.
, ..vi Phtltl Wm, K '
awo
cv. A i, H
the crossroad3. From her window she
could see the wide green lawns of the
hip hrtfl ThA rnniR pnnrta xrfra rnn
- 1
ar away for her to watch the play,
ULC1' J-"" lb
out sne HKea tne animated picture ot
the figures moving swiftly in the ardor
cf the game She could see the red
fi, whloh marker) the holes on the
r" f" !
flf course. a,n the gay awnings of
the country club, it was a life rrom
which she was shut out, but she loved
it, ......
- As she sewed steadily that afternoon,
tv, m ir.tr. hr thought the
- ngUon that Mrs. Rogers had made.
Why not wear a white gown? Why
not be young for once?
and sat there, stitching. Her hair,
lin.V.-.. m-ov vca fstretr.v.A-l K-ar-lr
i-snt sne 1 1 1 1 1 tne luuukiii iroiii ner.
titrhtlv from her forehead: he had a
mtl Piaid shawl about her shoulders.
2 25 K
fall, then went out into her garden.
She lnvKrl to rliff- amoner her rosea when
- - -- ------ " " ,
the darkness hid her from the passing
crowd.
As she knelt by the hundred-leaved
hnh n vnlre Raid. "She's rjrobablv
aiedI haven't dared ask-i passed
the other dav and saw a straneer sew-
, bv th- ODen window "
g. v,.f . . -
Phoebe's hand went to her heart. She
stood ut. cmziTie Witn startled eves m-
, to the shadows.
A man and a woman stood by the
"1. gate. They were summer visitors
jfhoebe knew tnat Dy tne tasnionaoie
siIhouettes against the brighter sky
h"""fttte3 aamst tne Drignter SKy
But the voice which had spoken was
the voice of the man who had loved
her and who had gone away.
. . . , . T j.. '
xae naa earn x pitssea me open win-
d owand saw a stranger sewing."
was she so changed as that She
once loved so well-and who Is thla
oilier wunia.ii : -
rr., j j i
shelter of her lonely little house,
siieiLei ui jci ii'j jh-iic hwubc.
There she faced a mirror. She was
.,
drwhiclTalrn tSShSS if
- ISr It
was long and shining. She piled it high,
as sne naa ween liiw wuuieii uvin uie iiuiui
wear theirs. The little curls fell down on
her forehead and over her ears, giving the
-""V
uo-to-oate ovai io ner iaw. one uauiuu
her face and arms in warm water, and
then came forth rosy. Then she donned
the gown.
The girl who looked back at her was a
radimt vUion. "Oh." she said, and
tlVoJgrSS&Sv?
FJ3S!!,.?L 'J? JSLfSEL-
KKr..T.',TL5i:r
witn age, out tney imea percecny.
Then witn a lace scarr over ner arm,
Phoebe flew up the road to Mrs. Rogers.
"Are you going to watch the dancing?'
she asked, as she peeped into the shop. i
"Phoebe?" Mrs. Rogers held up her
hands in amazement. "I hardly knew
you, you look twenty years younger."
"I'm going to be young Just for to
night!" "I'll be ready in a minute," said busy
Mrs. Rogers.
Much to Mrs. Rogers surprise, Phoeoe
took a conspicuous seat in the wide cor
ridor of the hotel, leading to the ball
room. The chair that she cnose was a
hitrh carved one, and made a picturesque
setting for her beauty. They could see
floor and came down the corrkler. Phoeoe
causrht her breath. "Do you know that
man?" she asked Mrs. Rogers.
Mrs. Rogers nodded. "He's very rich,
and a bachelor. They say he's engaged to
the girl he's dancing with."
It was the girl with whom he had stood
at Phoebe's gate. She was very hand
some, but there was something hard
about her face.
Phoebe shuddered. "I wonder if he is
really in love with her?"
Mrs. Rogers shrugged. "She has as
much money as he."
Marriage did not have a mercenary
meaning to little Phoebe. The boy she re
membered had believed ln love.
"Oh, let's go home," she said, suddenly.
Mrs. Rogers stared at her in surprise.
"I thought you liked it," she said, "but,
of course, we can go."
Phoebe stood up. The couple she had
been watching stopped dancing, left the
cam? down the r phoei
Mrs Rogers' arm. "Come," st.o
said, "come quickly."
"My dear child, are you ill?" Mrs.
Roerers' tone was aoUcltous.
Phoebe never answered that ues-
1 e man had ,eft the other Woinan
alone and was holding both of Phoebe's
hands in his own."
t-noeoe, ne wiu, rnucw: r ny juu
aren't a day older you darling!"
sSdT'the heleTTbe
other girl. "Gloria. I want you to meet 1
my old friend, Phoebe Bliss, the one I
told you about the other night. I wart
you two to be friends."
But there was no friendliness in the eye 3
of the other girl. She knew she had lost
the richest, most eligible man of the sea
son. I
Later Howard Graves told Phoebe al' j One has only to be unduly proud of
about it. "I intended to hunt you up to- one-s virtues to make them mora hate
morrow. I have put It off, because I was . . th vices. He that cannot upon
KJU mlKht dead r marrIed- occasion forget that" he is morally or
"Just think." Phoebe told Mrs. Rogers, mentally superior to his neighbor is
later, "if he had come that day when my prone to cover his good points witn
hair was twisted in a tight knot and 1 a cloak of conceit, and there Is no
had on mother's plaid shawl wasn't II . ihnrnnrh Hixz ulna.
y rhe saw mft "Sf1" for the irst Unie
"And now you're going to marry himt"
asked lurs. Rogers.
Yes, and after that love win oe my
open window, from whicto I shau iook out
at life." (Copyright. 1913 by the McClu-e
newspaper Syndicate.)
EVENING CHAT
BY ROTH CaJOCROX.
J
I It
jjs
ThB -th d. , OT-rheard a girl at a
ice ouier
counter next to ne making her choice be- j
expensive piece ot good lace.
imaiiy cnose "'"P'T, . ,T Z'
She finally chose the piece or real lace,
"x cfLn t Possibly afford it." she said ta
ner companion, "but I'll charge it, and i
guess it'll come out all right. I simply
can't bear things unless .they are nice."
-I know it, my dear," said the other
-.t-l V.. . Wav& avf.Vi MinJ tfiRtA "
Whereat the firsl Tairl siSiled a smile of
evident self-approval, and tucked the
plece of lace that ahw could not possibly
afford into her muff with an air of com-
ai
taste of hers which wouldn't let her o
content with things that were within her
income.
AnH in thai fos tiff aha Vtl IVTllPJll OT a
, ,a
I kept her husband in debt because sno
wouldn't have anvthinn cheap in he.-
: home. Her silver must be solid, thougn
his income was decidedly plated, her
floors must be hardwood when she should
have been content to have them painted,
c,, h lt,,i,ie. that evervtiun
form to her Income, no matter how baa'y
hurt,
I don.t deny that t havo god taBte is
a reason for pride. It U good to appre-
-Zzk i . .1 mtfv tutM.
Rut i4- ia nnt emeu tn nljLnft these tastes
and their gratification a boJ" "fir8nfe r
T.ly UVl
- . i u... m i-
woman is aoing viw nvtr wj1"'"!
means
After all. when you come to mi 01 ,
if all that we believe is true, these mt-
terial things that we sell our lives for
are nothing but chaff which the wi.id
ariveth away. Did you ever look around
your Uving room and eee those things
tnat you'Ve worked so hard to own and
collected so painstakingly, and suddenly
realize how very little they meant . In
themselves troey are ""- " , "Y.
because we have agreed together to cal.
f m lubit' , "ST Sn0r and
ruT'arS oVeV ateoTute and eterna;
. things? Jn ti,-r
t ir ennrse it a ouiv a. . . .. v. v..
a corner of the veil lifts like that, but
even that brief. Occasional Vision OUgri
to keeP us -from completely losing tne
rlgnt sense or values.
' Sponges Composed of Glass.
Th ,p0pUiar idea of a sponge is of
. . ...i . .i.v. -re.
a tougn, nDrous
markaWe capacity for absorbing Hq
ulds. Many understand It to be me
subaqueous home which a colony of
. . , , . j i t v.,ma
L.""...iw-..tr
. . .v, ,v.
covery of science that the sponge U
itself a salt water animal, with porea
in its body wall, which, when dried
in the sun, and thoroughly cleansed,
loses its softer part and becomes tne
sponge of commerce. The recently
scered fact that on the bottom of
, .....i. lor-alitiea the
tne deep certaln iocaUUes
, waU of ,jvinK Bponges is actually
t'JriT is perfectly true. At those
Iret depths where the pressure of
FJea Z JZV!7J tr,
in6 BUiTUUIlUlHg B1I1UU11W w
rvr,.rH to the smiare
,many Jun "r.h,. IT
Inch- tne soft a"d PhabLe a"ijnal f1
faHT"" ? -.a"" -Thl. T" a
. - , i, v.i
" J j m " -
most lin.eictsi.iiis icmaiiau.c -
ample of the re&l relatlo ns :
. - ,., ,..,,.1. u)Q Qnri mtnarai
""""cA 'TZLTrZ, ZZ. L
Buusuuitra. '.'."- J. "
rVasSfee? below tesuXcc
of the ocean are of glass as pure as
man, in forms
with ornamentation
delicate and graceful
' than could he achieved by the most
practiced human hands. Nothing was
KnvWH Ul tiiem caiuci viia.il uic uuuuic
of Nineteenth century, and it is
rer.er.tw that hn
only quite recently inai science nss
, . . i . . i . -
aerml,leu 1" JT .r. BX;
witn a wait .uunuic u. m-
principal mineral substance of which
' glass la made. This discovery is due
to tne great German traveler, Siebold,
K,"S-!wat8U0dIi
' rfteer6 oTLl JtS& his" Se
::. h. he ri tn
i-uunuj, " u..i..vi
fellow scientists me trutn oi nis ciaim.
japanese fishermen had grappled with
th apecimens on the bottom of .
. . 1 , , . , , .
some ot meir ucep u&ys wucin u I
absence of currents and other dis
turbance made possible the develop
ment of their wonderful filaments. Ia
honor of the discoverer of their true
character the scientists have named
this extraordinary creature, both ani
mal and mineral in substance,
Hyatenema Sieboldii Spongiae Mira-
bilis. These Japanese fishermen had
mounted their specimens on wood and .
Siebold at .first supposed them to be ,
..... , w.- I
glass spinners. It was only when he j
1C&11SCU L 11 c: uicv.ua.nvai iiiii.Dcsiuiiiijr I
of creating forms of such delicate ar
tificiality that he found the conclusion
afterward corroborated by his exami
nation of freshly caught glass sponges.
These he discerned to be true sponges
with body walls or glass instead ot The Cost "Vhv don't v
fibre. When the strange creatures lyn? Don't you think yZ "lTZ,l?
were dried in the sun and cleansed her?" "Support her! Why i
Of all the softer parts as ia the pro- , even pay for her complexJon."-atire.
cess with the sponges of commerce I
Siebold held In his hands variations ' ,Tn r"ob Prise. The Stockholm Tid- -of
the same delicately beautiful forms j ft? -S'lS! rhal the Nobel prize
which had so excited his . curiosity, .m" SoE. nc
These forms of actual glass were the Also ran-Mr. Jack Lwdo1,C.5Lowcl'
skeletons of the animal srionees lust I . """ funcn.
as the familiar sponge ia the skeleton 1
of the same species of animal making 1
its no me in suauow waters,
Later ln- I
vestlgation revealed how these glass i
sponges are born and developed into I
maturity. The beginning is the head
havlng the form of a fine glass needle,
These needles take on all kinds of
shapes, possibly due to accidental cur
rents, or the position ln which they
happen to fix themselves, so that there
ed kvJ
Globe ' -
SAYS UNCLE GAV
Theorize as we will, we regard
bad that which Is not agreeable. That,
after all. is the basis of the distinct
ion htwMn nni and bad. and a very
good working definition of evil. ie
that imnntn unto himself righteous
ness, and insists that his neighbors
give constant and unceasing recogni
tion of tha fact, may be utterly arooa
from a dogmatic standpoint, but he is
utterly bad from that of the common
sense person who Judges men by their
fruits. Tha stiff-necked moral dog
matist Is likely to mistake the shadT
ow for the substance and in the name
righteousness maK wilderness of
I - VT n j. Jj h nin and chart
tne worm over imu ,
woe. He does srood by
j and In tha mechanical
nls morai duties over
that leaventh the w
performance 01
overlooks the spirit
that leaventh the whole lump and
makes it palatable to the publican ana
the sinner.
His virtue Is of the "canned'' va
riety and spoils with exposure to the
air of everyday needs. Ho prickles
with ugly pride until he Is about as
agreeable to the touch as a cockleburr.
What good there is In him is so cov
ered up with harsh words and unkind
actions that the common run of folks
regard him and his goodness as an
abomination, which they are.
The touchstone of virtue and the
touchstone of ability are one service.
If devotion to your moral principles
makes neither yourself nor your neigh
bor happy, you have perverted them.
Tou have made a. radical mistake
somewhere along the line and, instead
of being the shining light that you
Imagine yourself to be, you're a thorn
in the side of your less pretentious
betters.
There is an old axiom of law which
says that fraud vitiates any contract.
Even so o'erweenlng pride in any vir
tue nullifies it. The virtue that is ser
viceable has no time for self-advertisement.
It is busy with its more serious
function of being of use. (Copyright,
1913, by the McClure Newspaper Syn
dicate.) ON THE SPlR
Ot Thh hOMENl
BT ROT X. MOULTON.
Grand Opry.
Grand Opry as a form of entertain
ment can't be beat.
I love to cough up ten good bones
and buy myself a seat.
To hear some howling tenor from
some low-browed foreign land
Come forth and yell a lot of. stuff
that I can't understand.
I simply dote on llstenln' for sev-ral
mortal hours.
While them high-priced sopranners
exercise their vocal powers.
I think I get my money's worth, oh,
yes. of course, I do:
And I am always sorry when the
Jamboree is through.
There's nothing I like half so well and
for a chance to go, 1 '
I'd walk five miles In my bare feet
right through the ice and snow.
I know what you are thinking. I've
got your thought wave quite.
You're thinking I'm a liar and I guess
you're thinking right.
From the Hickeyvllle Clarion.
Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Tibbitts are
h 2" 15 SLl
keepin' house now, but they don't
-"j
able to keep It. as they got It on the
installment plan.
'"6 tVe Twin- .wf be'n !tbI-t?
2 fl." '.tem f
news .In n,ne years and the editor Is
Sfettln' Well TlilTh HtoAAll o o-aI
. . . .
Hank Tumma one held a horse for
Woodrow Wilson's uncle and Hank
."e.W "m"a? '? .h H"1 nceal
nre inn i nit l nevoiea rer Hooaeveit
. - c
, N rnatror tvhnt MnJ r.t . i
WBtem. a. feller puts in hii house he
... V '-
'l'!n he had put in some other
Kina ne listens to the neighbors.
ThAef hsTJe
ln jail and th ot f
tiea :
When Tin mon rvn... . . . .
.t" . "T ,Jt-. --T" ",0l.nV
Dut Tnta wo7 doTn S
alsIe flrst tney are e ea aown tM
Jed Frink nnr hIalrorv,Uv. . , .
hc7me a cake of -leertf. ' brou,lt
"?"?e . . caKe .of. sleeping car soap
with him anri
he expects to nut a
. '
nandle on it and use it for a hammer.
It doesn't seem as thouah thou-
Montenegro soldiers with the Ihorr
klrts could do much d.hii7 i- .u
winter ngntln In the
Bts. our gentlemanly and
!era,,"ndjrtaker' also livery and fted
: "iinkim, some of
putting in an oatmobile hearae h..
what's the t. "I... : ""
though that Is one Vim- M
wouldn't be in ant l. DeB feU
1 "e in any hurry.
Heard In the Fifth Grade.
A semaphore is a young man who Is In
-""j ywi ta college.
A parallel Is two lines that ...
meet unless they are bent.
A skelington is a framework of bones
without anybody on it. "
There are 206 bones In the human bodv
unless a man is a bonehead. and then
there are 207.
An autocrat ia a man who knows how
to repair automobiles.
DlDlomaCv ia the art .....
wto'oW't bStevo it mCan omeW
Tea, Yes. "Privates in the army eat
Pre thn tne officers." "is that right?'
Chaparral. ""'
w v Oh SB lliurfl a-.r t rr-1
when ra,i . .
had beeMed aar"
he very properly eteaaed plow
matrimonial yoke. ChicaKo Record-Her-
. J8" Excuse me, madam; might I bor-
j HUMOR OP THE DAY

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